QLab – 1.3.2
Use QLab to create live media timelines for theatre, dance, composition, installation, and more. Play back audio, video, and MIDI from a single workspace.
QLab makes it simple to build rich, sophisticated designs. While QLab can control racks of state-of-the-art equipment, you don’t need high-end hardware for professional results.
The basic version of QLab is absolutely free, and comes fully loaded with dozens of sophisticated features. In fact, you’d have to spend hundreds of dollars on other software just to get what QLab gives you for free. For advanced users, additional plugins and enhanced features are available.
What’s new in this version:
Fixed
* Leopard compatibility: Fixed an issue where warnings would be printed at startup.
* Leopard compatibility: Fixed the Sound Cue to prevent a large number of console messages to be printed during playback, which could lead to stuttering and glitching. [#317]
* Leopard compatibility: Fixed a problem where key shortcuts could not be used to edit a cue duration “inline” in the workspace.
* Sound Cue: Fixed a bug where workspaces with very many Sound Cues could overshoot the OS X default limit for maximum number of open files, leading to extremely erratic behavior such as an inability to quit, inability to save the workspace, erratic inspector window behavior, etc.
* Video Cue: Fixed a problem where some video files could be truncated by a small but noticeable number of frames during playback (i.e. the videos would not quite reach the end). [#307]
* Video Cue: Fixed a problem where an inefficient use of graphics memory could cause workspaces with many Video Cues to crash or behave erratically. This adjustment also shortens load times for video workspaces.
* Video Cue: An initial white frame will no longer appear with still images on QuickTime 7.1.6. / 7.2 / 7.2.1.
* Video Cue: Fixed a memory leak that could lead to poor performance and crashes with workspaces consisting of a very large numbers of Video Cues.
* Fade Cue: When copying and pasting Fade Cues, the levels are no longer reset to the target cue’s levels. [#316]
* Fade Cue: When copying and pasting levels between Fade Cues, the duration of the cue is no longer set to zero. [#316]
Changed
* The levels of a Fade Cue will no longer automatically be set from the target when assigning a target. This fixes a bug (described above) and allows you to set up templates of Fade Cues to re-use. You can still assign levels from the target using the new Tools menu item “Set Levels from Target”.
Added
* MIDI String Cue, for sending raw SysEx MIDI messages. [#134]
* Fade Cue “Set Levels from Target” tool.
* The number of cues in the current cue list is displayed at the bottom of the workspace.
* Multiple files dragged from the Finder will now be added in alphabetical order to the workspace.
* Expanded documentation.
